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Archaeology: New excavations of Sofia’s Sveta Nedelya Square to start mid-June

June 8, 2015June 12, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology

The first major archaeological excavation of the Sveta Nedelya Square site in central Sofia in 60 years is to begin

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Bulgaria 

Archaeology: Bulgarian dig at motorway construction site finds Roman villa from time of Constantine the Great

May 21, 2015May 21, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology

Bulgarian archaeologists working at a site near the village of Mursalevo along the route of the construction of the Struma

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Bulgaria 

Archaeology: Bulgarian dig finds 8000-year-old ‘double-storey’ houses

May 19, 2015May 20, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology

Bulgarian archaeologists say that they have found 60 houses from a Neolithic settlement, estimated to date back 8000 years, that

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Bulgaria 

Archaeologists find ‘Ottoman-era’ child’s grave in central Plovdiv

May 6, 2015May 6, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology, Plovdiv

Archaeologists conducting a dig in central Plovdiv near the Bulgarian National Radio regional headquarters have found the grave of a

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Bulgaria 

PM: Bulgarian government has set aside 220 000 leva for Perperikon archaeological site

April 26, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology

Bulgaria’s government has allocated 200 000 leva (about 112 400 euro) for excavations and maintenance work at the Perperikon archaeological

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Bulgaria 

Archaeology: Excavations of Plovdiv’s Great Basilica to begin within weeks

March 20, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology, Plovdiv

Excavations of Plovdiv’s Great Basilica, the largest early Christian church found in Bulgaria and among the largest in South Eastern

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What’s On: Bulgarian Archaeology 2014 exhibition in Sofia until March 29 2015

February 17, 2015February 17, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology, Sofia

The eighth national exhibition in the annual series displaying new finds, Bulgarian Archaeology 2014, is on at the National Institute

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria busts international antiquities trafficking ring

January 30, 2015February 1, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology

Bulgaria has seized more than 2000 ancient and medieval objects during two major operations against an international crime group trafficking

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Perspectives 

2014 in Bulgaria: In other news…

December 31, 2014January 5, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology, Plovdiv

Some other news items from Bulgaria in 2014, that were not necessarily about politics or protests, a pipeline or the

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